Washing-machine



Patehted Oct. 6, 1896.

. J. H. QSTEWAYRT. WASHING mcnm:

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. STEWART, OF W'ILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALFTO JOSEPH VASBINDER, OF DUBOIS, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,141, dated October6, 1896. Application filed J' 11116 1'7, 1896. Serial No. 595,838. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. STEWART, a citizen of the'United States,residing at Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, in the State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWashing- Machines; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact specification of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to washing-machines.

The object of my invention is to produce a washing-machine which will besimple, cheap, and effective in cost and operation, and which will doits work thoroughly without tearing the clothes or pulling oif thebuttons.

For these purposes my invention consists in the following constructionand combination of parts, the features of which will first be fully setforth, and the points of novelty therein then described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my inventionand set in operative position in the tub. Fig. 2 represents the frame ofthe washer folded with the operating parts removed. Fig. 3 represents abottom view of the bed-plate. Fig. lis a detail cross-section of thesame, and Fig. 5 an end View of the machine.

1 represents the bed-plate of my improved washing-machine.

2 are the standards for holding the roller and the roller-base. Thesestandards are hinged to the bed-plate 1 so as to fold in the samedirection down upon the bed-plate.

3 is a top bar, one end of which is hinged to the top of one of thestandards so that it may be swung upwardly, and the other end isprovided with a locking device, by means of which it may engage the topof the opposite standard.

5 are vertical slots in the standards 2. The slot in the standard towhich the top bar is hinged need not necessarily extend clear to the topof the frame, but the slot 5 in the opposite standard extends clearthrough the top, for a purpose hereinafter to be described.

6 is the main operating-roller, having cor- .ported upon the rods 12.

rugations 7, and circumferential slots 8 are formed transversely of theroller atintervals along the length thereof.

9 is a rotary bed comprising a plurality of rollers disposed across thewidth of the machine. Each series of rollers is composed of severalshort rotary sleeves 10.

11 are a series of stationary plates supinterposed between the adjacentends of each of the series of rollers, and are located opposite thetransverse circumferential slots in the main roller 6.

13 is the main drive-shaft upon which the roller 6 is mounted, and it isprovided With a handle 14 at one end for rotating the same.

15 represents half-boxes or journal-bearings upon the opposite ends ofthe main drive-shaft. l

16 are segmentally-shaped castings formed on the sides of the standards,and are provided with slots and bolts for the purpose of vertically andlaterally adjustingthe same.

17 are rubber bands passing around the segment 16 and over the tops ofthe halfboxes 15, for the-purpose of giving the required tension betweenthe rotary bed 9 and the main. roller 6, and permitting the main rollerto ride to accommodate itself to the clothes which are passed throughthe machine when in operation. I

The bed-plate 1 is provided with a slot 18.

19 is an adjustable extension upon one end of the bed-plate.

20 is a slotted guide or casting rigidly secured to the extension 19,and projecting under the bed-plate and registering with the slotstherein.

21 is a bolt passing through a slot in the bed-plate and the slottedcasting. It is provided with a lock-nut 22, by means of which the endextension may be locked at any desired point.

23 areguide-pins rigidly secured to the bedplate or to the extensionthereof, and which are adapted to slide in and out of holes boredlongitudinally of the bed-plate to accommodate the same in order to holdthe extensionpiece in position relatively to the bed-plate.

These plates are 24 are sockets secured in the sides of the tub, withinwhich the opposite ends off the bed-plate 1 are secured after themachine is placed therein and the extension-piece 19 set out and locked.

My device is adapted to be compactly stored for the purposes oftransportation and storage when not in use.

To fold the machine, the top bar 3 is unlocked at 25 and the bar thrownupward. The main roller is then removed out through the top of the slotsin the standards 2 after the rubber tension-band 17 has been removed.The right-hand standard 2 is then folded downwardly, whereby the ends ofthe rods and journals of the rotary bed are freed, after which therotary bed is pulled away from the standard 2 at the left-hand side.Both standards 2 are then folded to theright, and the top bar 3 is thenfolded down with the standard, so that the whole device is broughtwithin a compact shape for storage or transportation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters 2 5 Patent, is

A washing-machine having an adjustable bed-plate, slotted standardshinged to the bed-plate, devices separably uniting said standards at thetop, a bed formed of short rotary sleeves turning rods bearing in saidstandards, stationary disks between said sleeves, amain roller journaledin said slots above the rotary bed and provided with longitudinalflutings and also with circumferential slots at points opposite saidstationary disks, means for turning the main roller, and an elasticconnection between the journals of the main roller and lugs adj ustablyfixed to the standards below said roller, substan- I have hereunto setJOHN 1-1. STEWART.

Witnesses:

IRA F. SMITH, T. M. GALLAGHER.

